Thursday, April 1

Warmup: HH page 28, exercise 5, 1-10
Italics, quotes, apostrophes, hyphens, parentheses and dashes
Review literary devices
Quiz on literary devices
WOTD: reverence (4/6), method (5)
Pearl Grab Bag

Homework: Pearl Essay due April 14.
Choose one topic of these three. Write a response to literature essay of four paragraphs or more (no limit). Give the essay a title. Don't forget that you need a thesis statement (what are you going to prove?) in the first paragraph, as well as the title and author or the book (and what kind of book: in this case a novella).

1. Discuss the role of greed in the book and how it affects the characters and the plot.

2. Discuss the roles of choice versus fate in the book. What was fate and what was choice, and how might the choices made change the outcome of the book?

3. Discuss some of the social issues in the book and compare them to social issues today. Are they the same? How are they different?

YOU ARE IN THE HOME STRETCH! REMEMBER THAT THE CURRENT GRADING PERIOD IS OVER ON THURSDAY, APRIL 16. ALL LATE WORK AND TEST MAKEUPS MUST BE DONE BY TUESDAY, APRIL 14.

WE WILL BE TESTING ON MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND FRIDAY THE WEEK OF APRIL 6. COME TO CLASS FIRST, AND WE WILL GO TO THE COMPUTER LAB FOR TESTING. PLEASE BRING A SILENT READING BOOK WITH YOU ALL THREE DAYS. SORRY, BUT YOU CANNOT BRING A KINDLE OR ANY OTHER E READER TO THE LAB. YOU WILL ALSO BE LEAVING YOUR CELLS PHONES AND OTHER DEVICES IN THE CLASSROOM.

Tuesday, March 31

Warmup HH 315 Evens
Literary Devices
Punctuation Quiz
WOTD: Resilient (4/6), relevant (5)
Pearl Wrap Up
Homework: Write a poem with at least 12 lines using at least 6 of the literary devices on the handout. Label each one.